The Many Problems Keeping Sam Altman Awake at Night: Dave Lee

What’s keeping Sam Altman up at night?

Talking to the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently, Altman, the chief executive officer and co-founder of Open AI, was only half-joking when he said he hadn’t “had a good night’s sleep since ChatGPT launched” in November 2022. On his mind were the “very small decisions” his company makes that can affect millions of people. He was speaking in the context of a flurry of reports on the sometimes tragic consequences of mentally unwell people turning to ChatGPT for help.

But it’s surely not the only issue swirling around in Altman’s ...